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Sixteenth Century Society & Conference Montréal 2010 2009-2010 OFFICERS President: Jeffrey R. Watt Vice-President: Cathy Yandell Past-President: Amy Nelson Burnett Executive Director: Donald J. Harreld Financial Officer: Eric Nelson ACLS Representative: Allyson M. Poska Endowment Chairso: Raymond Mentzer & Ronald Fritze COUNCIL Class of 2010: Walter S. Melion, Jeannine Olson, Allyson Poska, Randall Zachmann Class of 2011: Peter Marshall, Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre, Katherine McIver, Michael Walton Class of 2012: Kathryn Edwards,o Emidio Campi, Sheila ffolliott, Allison Weber PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chair: Cathy Yandell History: Sigrun Haude English Literature: Scott Lucas German Studies: Bethany Wiggin Italian Literature: Meredith Ray Theology: R. Ward Holder History of Science: Bruce Janacek French Literature: Jean-Claude Carron Spanish and Latin American Studies: Elizabeth Lehfeldt Art History:o Cynthia Stollhans NOMINATING COMMITTEE Emmet McLaughlin (Chair), Torrance Kirby, Mary B. McKinley, Bruceo Gordon, Pia Cuneo 2009–2010 SCSC PRIZE COMMITTEES Gerald Strauss Book Prize Ronald K. Rittgers, Amy Leonard, Timothy Fehler Bainton Art History Book Prize Lynette Bosch, James Clifton, Naomi Yavneh Bainton History/Theology Book Prize Christopher Ocker, Andrew Spicer, Kathryn Edwards Bainton Literature Book Prize Christopher Baker, Julia Griffin, Cynthia Skenazi Bainton Reference Book Prize John Farthing, Ronald Fritze, Konrad Eisenbichler Grimm Prize Roy Vice, Charles Parker, Peter Wallace Roelker Prize Megan Armstrong, Karen Spierling, Jeffrey R. Watt Meyer Prize David Whitford, David Myers, Timothy Maschke SCSC Literature Prize Susan Felch,o Jeff Persels, Beth Quitslund SCSC REGISTRATION Registration/Inscriptiono Office PUBLISHERS DISPLAYS & COFFEE BREAKS oSalon Fontaine A&B AFFILIATED SOCIETIES Society for Early Modern Catholic Studies Early Modern Worship Network Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Society for Reformation Research Richard Hooker Society Princeton Theological Seminary Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Toronto Biblia Sacra Research Group McGill Centre for Research on Religion Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär Swiss Reformation Studies Institute, Zurich American Society of Irish Medieval Studies Historians of Netherlandish Art Boston Colloquy in Historical Theology Leiden University NWO-VICI Project Meeter Center for Calvin Studies Petero Martyr Society PLENARY SESSIONS, ANNUAL MEETINGS, AND RECEPTIONS Thursday, 14 October 2010 5:30–7:00 p.m. Society for Reformation Research Plenary Roundtable Outremont WRITING IN/THROUGH RELIGIOUS EXILE Sponsor: Society for Reformation Research Organizers: Nicholas Terpstra, University of Toronto, and Megan Armstrong, McMaster University Chair: Nicholas Terpstra, University of Toronto Participants: Barbara Fuchs, University of California, Los Angeles Magda Teter, Wesleyan University Benjamin Kaplan, University College London Kenneth Mills, University of Toronto Christophero D’Addario, Towson University 5:30–7:00 p.m. The Spenser Roundtable Lasalle THE SPENSER ROUNDTABLE: SPENSER AND PLEASURE Organizer: Ayesha Ramachandran, SUNY, Stony Brook Chair: Scott Lucas, The Citadel Dubious Pleasures in Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender William A. Oram, Smith College “Pleasures Poyson”: Spenser and Rhetorical Pleasure Ernest Rufleth, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne Spenser’s Pleasure of the Text: Pornography in the Bower of Bliss Timothy Duffy, University of Virginia The Pleasures of Iconoclasm in Spenser’s Emblematic Poetry Tamara Goeglein,o Franklin & Marshall College 5:30–7:00 p.m. Renaissance Humanism Roundtable Mont Royal RENAISSANCE HUMANISM AND CONTEMPORARY ANTI-HUMANISM: A ROUNDTABLE Organizer: Jan Miernowski, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chair: Dominique Brancher, University of Basel The Humanism of Anti-humanism: On 21st-Century Reformations George Hoffmann, University of Michigan Les «propres de l’homme» confrontés à la critique du «spécisme» Ullrich Langer, University of Wisconsin-Madison Panurge: héros humaniste? Michael Randall, Brandeis University The Bombard, the H-bomb, and the Human Bomb: Which Humanism in Times of War? Jan Miernowski,Universityo of Wisconsin-Madison 5:30–7:00 p.m. Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Plenary Session & Annual General Meeting Fontaine G THE CANONIZATION OF ITALIAN WOMEN WRITERS IN EARLY MODERN BRITAIN Diana Robin, Universityo of New Mexico & the Newberry Library 7:00–8:30 p.m. Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Reception & Cash Bar Fontaine H All SCSCo attendees are invited to attend 7:30 p.m. SCSC Executive Committee Meeting La Verrière o(invitation only) Friday, October 15, 2010 12:15–1:00 p.m. Society for Early Modern Catholic Studies Business Meeting oSt-Lambert 5:15 p.m. Sixteenth Century Society and Conference Business Meeting Westmont All SCSC participantso are invited to attend 6:00–7:00 p.m. First SCSC Plenary Session Westmont Introduction: Jeffrey R. Watt, University of Mississippi BOOK HISTORY FROM LYON TO FEZ: A PERSONAL ACCOUNT Natalie Zemono Davis, University of Toronto 7:00 p.m. SCSC General Reception oOutremont Saturday, October 16, 210 8:30–10:00 a.m. President’s Graduate Student Breakfast Session THE JOB SEARCH Chair: Jeffrey R. Watt, SCSC President Le Portage Participants: Amy Nelson Burnett, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Marian Rothstein, Carthage College Glenn S. Sunshine, Central Connecticut State University David Whitford,o United Theological Seminary 12:15–1:30 p.m. SCSC Graduate Student Luncheon Le Portage o(invitation only) 5:00–6:00 p.m. Society for Reformation Research Business Meeting oOutremont 5:00–6:00 p.m. French Connections: Scholars of French History and Literature Reception & Cash Bar oLounge 6:30–7:30 p.m. Second SCSC Plenary Session Chapelle Notre Dame de Bon Secours 400 St. Paul Street East Montréal, H2Y 1H4 (4 blocks from Metro Stop “Champs de Mars”) Introduction: Cathy Yandell, Carleton College HUMANISM, LITERARY HISTORY, AND THE BODY (SECOND THOUGHTS) Timothy Hampton,o University of California, Berkeley RELIGIOUS SERVICES Roman Catholic Mass Sunday 7:30 a.m. Mont Royal Protestant Service Sunday 7:30 a.m. oVerdun HOTEL INFORMATION Hilton Montreal Bonaventure 900 de La Gauchetiere W. Montreal, Quebec, Canada H5A 1E4 Tel: 1-514-878-2332 Fax: 1-514-878-3881 Thursday, 14 October 2010 1:30–3:00 p.m. 1. The Criminal Body and the State in Early Modern Europe Fontaine C Organizer: Megan Armstrong, McMaster University Chair: Michael Breen, Reed College Body Politics: The Criminal Body between Public and Private Nicholas Terpstra, University of Toronto Loopholes in the Law? Avoiding the Gallows in England Margaret McGlynn, University of Western Ontario Punitive Branding in Seventeenth Century England: Social Control, Recognition, and Identity Joel Konrad, McMaster University 2. Rethinking Public Political Participation in England, 1558–1650 Fontaine E Organizer: Natalie Mears, University of Durham Chair: Brian Cowan, McGill University Participation and Persuasion in Early Modern England David Dean, Carleton University Rethinking the Political: Prayer and the Public in the Reign of Elizabeth I Natalie Mears Getting the Message Across: National Days of Prayer during the Civil War Lucy Bates, University of Durham 3. Reformers and Peasants Pointe-aux-Trembles Sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Organizer: Kenneth Appold, Princeton Theological Seminary Chair: Elsie McKee, Princeton Theological Seminary Discussant: Inseo Song, Princeton Theological Seminary Luther’s Response to the Twelve Articles Kenneth Appold The Peasants’ War and Melanchthon’s Reinstating of Aristotle’s Ethics in the Protestant Arts Curriculum Yoshi Kato, Princeton Theological Seminary Pigeons and Bats, Scissors and Shoes: Symbols in the Woodcut from Christoph Andreas Fischer’s “The Hutterite Anabaptist Pigeon Coop” (1607) Adam W. Darlage, Oakton Community College 4. Peter Martyr Vermigli: Exegesis, Engagement, Expectation Fontaine F Sponsors: McGill Centre for Research on Religion and the Peter Martyr Society Organizer: Torrance Kirby, McGill University Chair: Frank James, Gordon Conwell Seminary Vermigli’s Commentary on Samuel 1 & 2 Jon Balserak, University of Bristol Peter Martyr Vermigli and John Jewel: Florentine mentor of the Elizabethan Church Torrance Kirby John Calvin and Peter Martyr Vermigli on nicodemism Emidio Campi, University of Zurich 1 • SCSC—Montréal—2010 Thursday, 14 October 2010 1:30–3:00 p.m. 5. Honor and Shame in the Early Modern Mediterranean Fontaine D Organizer and Chair: Eric Dursteler, Brigham Young University Discussant: Scott Taylor, Siena College Whither Honor? Allyson Poska, University of Mary Washington “Generosity…in the Slavery of this Brave Cavalier”: Sanctity Honor in the French Mediterranean Brian Sandberg, Northern Illinois University 6. Women Religious as Patients and Healers Fontaine G Organizer And Chair: Alison Weber, University of Virginia Discussant: Silvia Evangelisti, University of East Anglia “Apply Olive Oil, Fennel, and Pieces of Veil”: A Spanish Nun as Healer during the “Hunger Years” Alison Weber Tending to the Sick and Poor in Early Modern Paris and London Susan Dinan, William Paterson University Terminal Illness on a Transatlantic Voyage Sarah Owens, College of Charleston 7. Perspectives on Military, Religious, and Commercial Encounters between Ottomans and Western Europeans Fontaine H Organizer: Sigrun Haude, University of Cincinnati Chair: James Smither, Grand Valley State University The Genoese Trade Diaspora: Christians and Muslims